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What Lies Beyond the Veil by Harper L. Woods

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c45p1n's review

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

k i’m making a list

this book is literaly acotar’s doppelgänger (derogatory) (in regards to the characters)
very predictable
ends on a cliff hanger (is part of a trilogy)
tropes: fae & faeries, fated mates/soulmates, gods, betrayal, one bed trope (sorta? more of a cling-to-each-other-for-body-heat type of one bed), death is a trope., magic, strangers to lovers, (idk how to describe it but) surviving together, i hate everyone but you (male mc), grumpy x grumpier, again (bc there is so much) character death, um yeah. can’t think of anything else, OH “who did this to you” trope ON BOTH SIDES, yeah that’s abt it
OH: it felt like a video game in the sense that you had to complete a goal and talk to someone and then just be in stasis for the rest of the story, like just the middle 150 pages were nothingness but the FMC & MMC flirting and traveling with nothing actually happening in that chuck of time.
same with the beginning sorta. it was just 1) the veil shattered, 2) XXX & FMC ran away, 3) 50 pages later they meet the MMC, 4) battle against the enemies, 5) the middle where literally nothing plot-heavy happens til chapter 28
pretty smutty tbh, not amount-wise but kink-wise
i’m honestly kinda stumped on what to rate this but i think i’m gonna split it up then find the average and do it from there but you can just use these rates for generality
plot: 4/10; characters: 7.5/10; smut: 7/10; monologue: 5/10, dialogue: 7/10; world-building: 8/10; fae history explanation: 8/10 (there was a glossary), character likeability: 8/10
using my 200 dollar calculator, the mean is ≈ 7 so that’s like a 3.25 in my mind
literally everyone died except the main character and love interest💀
idk why but kinda reminded me of the hunger games
read TWs before reading the book fs !!!!!!

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dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

it’s a good book; it has a goodish plot but it focuses more on the romance aspect of the story rather than the “fantasy” one. The smut is immaculate, best i’ve ever read.

Caelum isn’t a strong main male character, his only personality and sole purpose is Estrella. He is obsessed with her even to a point where it’s concerning. At first i liked it but when every word that would come out of his mouth was overprotective/extreme jealousy, it annoyed me. PLUS Estrella didn’t even defend herself at times, she thought nothing of it.

The world building is good, it represents the purity culture really well and it shows exactly how poorly women were treated and how the men had all the power. I also liked that Estrella wasn’t brainwashed to think like that. She hd her own opinions and beliefs, even if it didn’t show when Caelum was around.

i saw the “plot twist” coming from KILOMETERS away, it was totally predictable. that annoyed me.

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